My remark bears reference only to your addressing the general public on the subject. Those who know you, well understand all you mean by the words you used. Disastrous indeed to the cause of democracy is its advocacy by the pens of such writers as M. Charles Heinzen. The tyrants of the earth take courage when so good an opportunity is offered to their newspaper hacks, to alarm not merely the timid, but all peaceloving liberals and to vilify, as men desiring bloodshed and a reign of terror, those who seek only by moral efforts to increase the happiness of the human family. Dalston, December 7, 1849. W. ADDISCOTT. [Many excellent men among continental democrats share Heinzen's sentiments and as they do not understand the principle of procedure happily inaugurated among us, they may not understand our repudiation of their views to proceed as it really does-not from want of fraternal feeling towards them, but in the necessary protection of the integrity of the reasoning principle in England.-ED.] BLANCO WHITE'S SONNET. W. E. B., in reference to the Sonnet on Night, by Blanco White, quoted in Public Speaking and Debate,' sends us an extract from Sir Thomas Brown, which is as follows, in which a similar idea, long before the days of White, was expressed Light, that makes things seen, makes some things invisible. Were it not for darkness and the shadow of the earth, the noblest of creation had remained unseen, and the stars in heaven as invisible as on the fourth day, when they were created above the horizon with the sun, or there was not an eye to behold them.' On the 15th of every month will be published, Price One Penny, THE LECTURER. 'I am in that place in which it is demanded of conscience that I speak the truth; and the truth I therefore speak, impugn it whoso list.'-John Knox. The Lecturer-speaking when a man is qualified to speak, when he has something to say will deliver to the public his free opinion on matters very necessary to be discussed, though not treated in newspapers, nor in the usual periodicals. Independent, plain, and earnest, each lecture will form a Monthly Tract suitable for general circulation. To this end the Lecturer may be had at six shillings per hundred; so that twelve persons, subscribing sixpence each, may procure on e hundred for circulation in any locality. In English law lectures are copyright (and very properly so) as no one ought to publish and create a property in the thoughts of another without his authority. In this publication none but original lectures will appear, and none but those of which the right to print them has been secured. It being very well understood how much animation an orator displays when addressing a large audience, and how dull most speakers are when addressing a few, it will be the interest of all concerned, that on the delivery of each Lecture the attendance (at the publisher's) should be numerous. No I will appear on the 15th of January. London: James Watson, 3, Queen's Head Passage, Paternoster Row. Elustrative Notices. IN Dr. Vaughan's 'The Age and Christianity' the following passages occur:'Induction cannot prove God (p. 83.)......We cannot regard the inductive philosophy as capable of meeting the exigencies to which we feel ourselves exposed as religious men. No multiplication of finite effects can be taken as a proof of a cause above the finite. To prove the existence of a designer is not necessarily to prove the existence of a God. The construction of a world is not the same thing with a creation of the matter from which the world is formed......No attempt of any philosopher of this school to harmonise our ideal notion as to the sort of world which it became a being of infinite perfection to create, with the world existing around us, can be successful. We may reason our way to the conclusion that the Divine existence is necessarily uncaused and independent, and, as Dr. S. Clarke has done, from these data to the other perfections of the Divine nature, But side by side with the conclusions thus legally wrought out are the facts of the moral and physical world, which seem to justify inferences of an opposite description. To solve this enigma has been the great task of humanity (p. 84.)......God cannot contradict himself' (p. 221.) In a speech delivered at the Soirée of the Oldham Lyceum, January 13th, 1847, by Mr. Charles Swain, the chairman, it was remarked that In Ireland there are no fewer than seventy-four towns, none of which possess a single bookseller's shop; of these towns some have 12,000, some 11,000, 9000, 8000, and 6000 inhabitants, nore fewer than 2500. Nay, what is still more striking and startling, there are six entire counties without a single bookseller; they are the counties Wicklow, Donegal, Kildare, Leitrim, Queen's, and Westmeath." Chastity' is the title of a neat little volume published by Horsell, Aldine Chambers. That which is good in this book is very good, but it might be contained in much less space. Like all Graham's books, it has a morbid American vein of exaggeration, which is rather likely to make the reader doubt the truth of its general statements. The opening contains a virulent defamatory passage representing 'Infidelity' as an agent of licentiousness, But as a whole we have no book of the same utility among us. The Edinburgh Seeular School-conducted, we believe, by Mr. Williams, and in which Mr. George Combe gives lessons-has been the subject of correspondence in the Scotsman. We intended to give Mr. Combe's able answer to the question What is Secular Education?' but room permits not. All books belonging to the Free-Inquirers' Library are to be sent in to the Secretary, Ellis's Room's, 8, George Street, Euston Square. This society holds its Soirée and Ball on December 26th: Tea at Six. The room in Manchester, where the Bishop and clergy held their meeting at which Mr. Southwell was apprehended, is now occupied by an exhibition of Manning and his wife. In this day of controversy concerning the Sabbath, the pamphlet published by H. C. Wright-entitled First Day Sabbath not of Divine Appointment'-will be found well worthy of attention. Besides Wright's own arguments, it contains the opinions of Calvin, Luther, Belsham, Melancthon, Barclay, Paley, Whately and others. The Chemist for October, in an article on Metropolitan Hospitals, says that in a piece of ground in the rear of the London Hospital is dug a large hole, and when as many bodies have been dissected as will fill coffins sufficient to lay within two or three feet of the surface, a clergyman comes at about nine o'clock in the morning-somewhat ashamed, doubtless, to meet the numbers which at a later hour might congregate-and performs the ceremony; but whether he is committing "dear brothers or sisters," or a due admixture of both "to the ground," we leave to those who have the job of making up these packing cases of human flesh.' G. J. H. THE WEEK'S LECTURES. [These lectures are quoted from the official announcements of the respective institutions. When we discontinued this list, friends arriving from the provinces, as well as those residing in the metropolis, so complained of the want of this guide to the lecture room that we have renewed it, and take much trouble to perfect it.] LITERARY & SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION, John Street, Fitzroy Square.-Dec. 23rd (7), Walter Cooper, Progress in the Provinces.' HALL OF SCIENCE, City Road.-Dec. 23rd, a lecture. INSTITUTION, Carlisle Street, Edgeware Road.December 24th (8), a Lecture. SOUTH LONDON HALL, Webber Street, Blackfriars Road.-Dec. 23rd (7), Mr. W. Baker, will Lecture. City Mechanics' Institute, Gould-sq., Crutchedfriars.-Dec. 23rd (83), a Lecture. Eclectic Institute, 72, Newman Street, Oxford Street.-Dec. 23rd (8), J. B. O'Brien, B.A. 'The Application of Scriptural Truths to the Practical Business of Life.' South Place, Moorfields.-Dec. 23rd (11a.m.), a Lecture. 27th, Lecture Hall, 8, George Street, Euston Square.- SECULAR SCHOOLS. [Friendly to the principle of secular instruction, we publish this list of schools to aid in procuring them support, as well as to apprise our friends where the best kind of education can be had for their children.] Finsbury Birkbeck School, City Road.-Superintendent, Mr. J. Runtz; Principal, Mr. Thomas Cave. Hours, half-past 9 till 3. John-street, Fitzroy-square.-Principal, Mr. A. D. Brooks. Hours, 94 till 31. Ellis's Academy, 8, George-st., Euston-square.Open to both sexes. Principals, Mr. & Mrs. Ellis. Hours, 9 to 12; from 1 to 4. Birkbeck School, London Mechanics' Institution, Southampton Buildings.-Patron, Earl of Radnor. Principal, Mr. J. Runtz. Hours, 9 to 3. Quarters, first Mondays in January, April, July, and October. Half-quarter pupils taken. National Hall, 242, High Holborn.-Superintendent, Mr. W. Lovett. Hours 9 till 3.-Girls' Schools, same hours. Conductress, Miss Sunter. Aurora Villa, North End, Hampstead.-Principal, Mr. H. L. Harrison. Pupils boarded & taught. Birkbeck School, Windsor Street (back of the Mansion House), Lower Street, Islington.-Conductor, Mr. Wells. Hours, 9 to 3. DIETETIC DEPOTS. [Considering that a more extensive use of farinaceous food would conduce to public health and private economy, in order to facilitate experiments, we publish this list of houses known to supply the specified kinds of food in their best state.] Miller, Duke-street, Grosvenor-square.- Pure Thomas Bax, 143, Bishopsgate-street Without. 'Thoughts' on Petrarch, Sterne, Byron, and "The populace have begun to think, to speak, and to write," says Mr. Holyoake; and he asks "why should they not be enabled to do it free from obvious mistakes, and with a propriety commensu. rate with the native intelligence they possess?"? This little volume will be found of great practical service to the uninitiated in the formal scholastic SP PURR'S TEMPERANCE COFFEE HOUSE, treatises on logic. Any working man of ordinary 10, Williamson Square, Liverpool. Travellers abilities can comprehend this treatise, and cannot accommodated upon the most reasonable terms. fail to be benefited by it. It is written in a clear- J. S. informs his friends and others who are about headed, original, lively fashion-indeed it might to Emigrate, either to the Canadas or United be read simply for the entertaining illustrations States, that he has entered into arrangements with Instead of recurring to the old stereotyped for- a respectable shipping house, and is prepared to mulas, Mr. Holyoake selects his instances from furnish information as to cost of passage, time of "what about us lies in daily lite," and thus endues sailing, &c., &c. with interest and vitality a subject which requires no All communications must be post-paid and con. common hand to render it popular. Here, in fewer than a hundred pages, will be found the pith of tain a postage stamp, or they will not be many bulky treatises on logic, presented in an attractive but practical form to those who have not had the advantage of methodical study of answered. the subject. We wish we had space for some pas- COALS. JOHN CRAMP, of the firm of NEAL sages we had marked for quotation, but we must content ourselves by heartily recommending "The Logic of Facts."'-Lincolnshire Advertiser, April 21. and Co., Coal Merchants, Old Jamaica Wharf, Surrey side of Blackfriars Bridge, informs his Social Friends that he is desirous of giving them the advan. tage of the wholesale market, by supplying Coal of the best quality at the lowest price for ready money! the rate of charges being always only four shillings from the Coal Exchange. Present Price, 24s. On the 1st of February, 1850, will appear, price 6d. advance on the prices in the Pool, as advertised No 1 of the PEOPLE'S REVIEW: devoted to Progress. Edited by Friends in Council. Though the people have long been stirred with the spirit of improvement, no Literary Magazine has been issued at a price which they could compass. The few have their critical Monthlies and Quarterlies, while the many, who more need it, have no such Guide to Books. The People's Review purposes to supply this deficiency, and in this day of many books to indicate which are the useful ones. A person reading twelve hours every day, would be able to read only one fortieth part of the new books issued every year, exclusive of newspapers. To trace a short path through this labyrinth, and to relieve the ever multiplying class of thinkers from the difficulty which Hobbes felt when he said ' If I should read as much as my neighbours I should bet as ignorant as they are,' is the aim of the People's Review. That elongated genius, Bob Thin,' will make his obeisance in the first number, intending to have TWENTY-SIX CUTS AT THE TIMES! On the first Saturday in 1850 will be published, (PRICE ONE PENNY,) No. 1 of a new Weekly Periodical, to be entitled COOPER'S JOURNAL; to be conducted by THOMAS COOPER, author of the Purgatory of Suicides,' and devoted to Intellectual, Moral, and Political Progress. It was a saying of Napoleon that 'a name was a programme of ideas and opinions;' and the name of the editor of the new cheap periodical is so well known as that of a Plain Speaker,' and an advo. cate of the broad rights of mankind, that professions, in the present instance, become unnecessary. The new periodical wil he octavo in form, and consist of sixteen closely printed pages each number. The first number will be ready for the trade on New Year's Day, RECEIVED.-J. C., Leamington Spa. (We regret to say Mr. Martin's Mother's Guide has not been issued.)-William Wall on Capital Punish ments.-A. Brown. (De Morgan's is the arithi metic. Murphy's Essay can be had at 2s. Aliquis has published no other works than those known to A. B., but is likely to do so. Hints to Self-Educators will probably be attempted in the People's Review.)-J. L. (Mr. Burke, whom we have asked, answered that the Ethnological Journal wou d appear, though delayed for the present.)-R. Read, Kew. (Propositions 41 and 43 are Theorems. True, triangle A E B is equal to A CD-to UT F.)-Liverpool Journal, No. 1036.-Chronotype, Nos. 25 and 20.-Progres sionist, No. 15. All communications for Mr. Holyoake to be directed to 3, Queen's Head Passage, Paternoster Row, as usual. With the last number of the volume will be presented to the readers an engraving of the design of the Carlile Monument, ci suitable size to bind with the volume. ERRATA. After the word 'future,' line 3 from bottom,page vi. of Epilogue, read 'of their opinions," which will be found in the line above. After the word 'generation,' on page ii., read the note found on page iii. London: Printed by Holyoake & Co., 3. Queen's Head Passage, Paternoster Kow; and Published by J. Watson, 3, Queen's Head Passage, Pater noster Row. Wednesday, December 19, 1849. THE REASONER No. 26.-NEW SERIES.] EDITED BY G. J. HOLYOAKE. [PRICE 24. AN author, from whom better things might have been hoped, exalts to the uttermost the fact, if it be so, of this age being free from fear of the faggot, or the torture-chamber. Fear of the social circle, fear of the newspaper, fear of being odd, fear of what may be thought by people who never did think. still greater fear of what somebody may say-are not these things a clinging dress of torture? A mean and cowardly reserve upon the most important questions of human life, is the characteristic of modern times.-Arthur Helps. THE CLOSING SERIES. 6 In the early days of the Movement, before we had a printing office of our own, I often had difficulty in getting a printer. The government intimidated those whom we employed. On one occasion, however, I discovered another ground of reluctance, which caused me both pain and surprise. Calling upon a printer in the city, to engage him to bring out the ninth and future numbers of the Movement, I was struck with the little interest he seemed to take in my offer. As I knew him not to want courage or liberality, I mentioned the name of the gentleman who had recommended me to him, and who had had a progressive periodical printed at the same office. Oh, we know Mr. Z. very well,' was the reply. Craven!' said the principal to his clerk, 'Craven, I think we know Mr. Holyoake's friend; just look.' Pleased with the ready reference, I expected to find myself well accredited, for the name I had given was one that had great influence over me. It is not in my power to describe the confusion I felt when Craven replied "O yes, we know him £60-meaning that there was in their books an account of £60 against him. I envied those genii in the Arabian nights, who could, on an emergency, vanish from sight. The humiliation I felt was extreme-such that I have taken care never to run the risk of since. 'Yes,' added the principal, with a bitter smile, there are some persons who struggle for liberty at other people's expense; and some of that applause bestowed on certain champions of the public, is due to those who hold their unpaid bills.' 'You are right,' I answered, in agonyand I felt infinitely relieved when I once more found myself in the wide open streets, which I hastened to reach. 6 So general was the impression of indifference to pecuniary obligation, that afterwards, when I had found a respectable printer, (to whom I took care to open the business on my own account this time, and without a reference,) other printers called upon him to warn him that men of progress of my class seldom paid. He answered-All he could say was, that he had received, unasked, every farthing of his bills the moment they became due, and that he should continue to print for me.' I did not know this till long after-when, on Mr. Hornblower becoming my [No. 187, Vol. VII.] |